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steve calls bob dylan. bob dylan slightly spacey, so he does not quite deal with that, but they're all trying to figure out. steve john stockton into it. he finally says pavel write you a check for $1 million. and he -- a eight to say it, takes the money. he has moved out of sony. he does an eye upon with him wearing the ipod had. it helps them more than it helps the ipod. for the first time in 20 years he appeared with an album of the top of the billboard charts because itunes and ipod had such a cachet that hen just doing that at introduced into a new generation. you look skeptical. >> i'm not skeptical. these are actually a lot of interesting questions. where do i start? the let me just ask you one other question. which is about the final chapter. if reality does not comport with his will he would ignore it as he had done with the birth of his daughter and would do years later. i think when i talk to people about the questions that most wanted me to ask you tonight, easily in the top three was why would
steve calls bob dylan. bob dylan slightly spacey, so he does not quite deal with that, but they're all trying to figure out. steve john stockton into it. he finally says pavel write you a check for $1 million. and he -- a eight to say it, takes the money. he has moved out of sony. he does an eye upon with him wearing the ipod had. it helps them more than it helps the ipod. for the first time in 20 years he appeared with an album of the top of the billboard charts because itunes and ipod had...
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the club where steve jobs convinced lots of apple. but the early prototypes and solicited advice from all sorts of people. that is great for creativity. when it comes to the stance of incubators at the same thing, just at an accelerated pace. one of the lessons when you're trying to figure out why some of troubadours, their secret sauce, was separates them. one of my favorite subjects, the sociologist at princeton. he tracks 766 graduates who had gone on to start their own companies in silicon valley. and what he found is that those entrepreneurs with whom he calls an tropics social network, so a diversity of friends. if they were a computer programmer, they hang out with other computer programmers. they make time to spend time with metro biologists somewhere else. people from all sorts of backgrounds and spoke different languages, use different acronyms. those with and tropicana diverse social networks were three times more innovative than those with predictable social networks. he measured innovation in terms of the number of patter
the club where steve jobs convinced lots of apple. but the early prototypes and solicited advice from all sorts of people. that is great for creativity. when it comes to the stance of incubators at the same thing, just at an accelerated pace. one of the lessons when you're trying to figure out why some of troubadours, their secret sauce, was separates them. one of my favorite subjects, the sociologist at princeton. he tracks 766 graduates who had gone on to start their own companies in silicon...
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the other thing that is interesting talking about steve wozniak and steve jobs and those things is steve jobs had the passion of an artist to have end to end control. hardware, integrated with software, don't open it up. woz was much more open. license out the software but on the apple ii it had a slot. you could check into it. you could open it up. you could get to the circuit board. steve jobs was against having slots. he wanted as an artist would, wouldn't want bob dylan saying let's have and work opens force on the lyrics for everyone to put words in. he didn't like people jacking and opening up. woz insists he wants the apple ii have these lots but mcintosh doesn't. mcintosh doesn't have screws you can use to open it up and that was very steve jobs-like. all the way through his career really believing in tightly controlling like the gardens of kyoto that he loved to visit, carefully curated, carefully tended by one artist's sensibility. >> let's move to the macintosh era. so much is going on, so much growth. his personal courtship of john scully begins. talk a little bit about that.
the other thing that is interesting talking about steve wozniak and steve jobs and those things is steve jobs had the passion of an artist to have end to end control. hardware, integrated with software, don't open it up. woz was much more open. license out the software but on the apple ii it had a slot. you could check into it. you could open it up. you could get to the circuit board. steve jobs was against having slots. he wanted as an artist would, wouldn't want bob dylan saying let's have...
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and the other thing that is interesting in talking about steve's wozniak, steve jobs and steve had the passion of an artist to have and to rent control. hardware, integrated the software, don't open it up. wozniak was much more open and, but on the apple ii i think it has eight slots. you could check into it, put stuff into it. you could open it up and get to the circuit board and steve jobs was against having slots. he wanted as an artist would tiered he would want bob dylan's famous have an open source on my lyrics. everybody can put the words they want. he didn't like people. he wanted the apple ii to have the spot, the jacks, but the macintosh doesn't and it does mean that screws you can use to open it up. and i was very steve jobs like all the way through his career, really believing and tightly controlling at the gardens of kyoto to do that to those that come, carefully curated from a carefully walled, carefully tended by one artist and stability. >> let's move now to the macintosh era. so much is going on, so much growth in this personal courtship of john sculley begins. talk a
and the other thing that is interesting in talking about steve's wozniak, steve jobs and steve had the passion of an artist to have and to rent control. hardware, integrated the software, don't open it up. wozniak was much more open and, but on the apple ii i think it has eight slots. you could check into it, put stuff into it. you could open it up and get to the circuit board and steve jobs was against having slots. he wanted as an artist would tiered he would want bob dylan's famous have an...
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if you have your heart set on the apple macbook pro- you can go to steve the apple store but if you go there if you will not get a flex payment option a vip financing. we only do vip financing on a few today specials i year and that is almost like $140 a month on a macbook pro it boggles the mind to get this completed interaction at home for all littleder zero hundred and $49 when you get the once people become part of the macbook world you get spoiled and used during all work for you. >>guest: it is just like when you get that phone our talent and you say while this is what i have been missing? if with the press of a button in makes it so much simpler even with navigation you can have all that technology you have with your i found your not a mouse you are just move your fingers and you get the easy navigation and ease of use. the apple macbook pro is responsive you are not waiting for hourglass and that's for the 500 gb i5 core and it gives you a 7 hour battery life when you needed. did you know that 50 percent of all internet traffic right now is based which more speed. you might as
if you have your heart set on the apple macbook pro- you can go to steve the apple store but if you go there if you will not get a flex payment option a vip financing. we only do vip financing on a few today specials i year and that is almost like $140 a month on a macbook pro it boggles the mind to get this completed interaction at home for all littleder zero hundred and $49 when you get the once people become part of the macbook world you get spoiled and used during all work for you....
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and i said, hey, you know, i'm interviewing steve, any questions for him, and he brought up apple. because apple is now more valuable than exxonmobil. >> guest: right. >> host: and it's also secretive, and it's also thin-skinned. >> guest: right. >> host: but apple's cool. >> guest: exactly. you say i work on the ipod, everyone's going to crowd around -- >> host: right. and so to bring that question full circle, i mean, do you -- i mean, it's kind of a two-parter which is do you think exxonmobil's strategy has kind of tarnished the rest of the oil business and kind of people associate big oil with exxon and everybody in big oil is bad, and do you think it's spread to other companies, or in the case of apple, it seems to be kind of thin-skinned and control and secret i have and still be really hip and cool, people can like you? >> guest: yeah, it's really interesting. i went back and looked at the top five corporations in the united states from, say, 1945 to the present. and exxon's always on the list. the companies around them rise and fall. where the companies in the '50s were num
and i said, hey, you know, i'm interviewing steve, any questions for him, and he brought up apple. because apple is now more valuable than exxonmobil. >> guest: right. >> host: and it's also secretive, and it's also thin-skinned. >> guest: right. >> host: but apple's cool. >> guest: exactly. you say i work on the ipod, everyone's going to crowd around -- >> host: right. and so to bring that question full circle, i mean, do you -- i mean, it's kind of a...
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[laughter] i would like to call my first witness, the great, honorable steve forbes. >> very good. [applause] >> mr. forbes, will you be seated there, please? i have a copy of "how capitalism will save us: why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy," by steve forbes. would you, please, put your hand on it, sir? do you swear to tell truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me my best book? >> well, i've got a better book coming -- [laughter] it can be ordered on amazon. [laughter] >> mr. forbes, thank you for being here. i'm under the understanding that you own a yacht. >> yes. >> does that make you an evil person? >> i think it makes me a person that other people would like to be. [laughter] >> would you please tell the -- >> as my father liked to say, money may not buy happiness, but it sure helps. [laughter] >> now, let me ask you this question, do you think that getting rich is an evil pursuit in this country? >> i think real entrepreneurs get rich by providing to the needs and wants of others, by providing services. you get rich tha
[laughter] i would like to call my first witness, the great, honorable steve forbes. >> very good. [applause] >> mr. forbes, will you be seated there, please? i have a copy of "how capitalism will save us: why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy," by steve forbes. would you, please, put your hand on it, sir? do you swear to tell truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me my best book? >> well, i've got a better book...
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i have a copy of how capitalism will save us by steve forbes. please put your hand up. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you my best book. [laughter] >> i have another book coming. >> you own a ought to? does that make you enable%? >> a person that other people would like to me. [laughter] as my father liked to say money does not buy happiness, but it helps. do you think getting rich is a noble pursuit? >> real entrepreneurs get to rich by providing needs and services to others. if you get rich through crony capitalism it is a problem. >> does wall street is there period of excess as the prosecutors allege people are overpaid and greedy? >> to say greed causes the crisis is like gravity causes the airplane crash. there is excess but why did it happen? because of excess money creation by the federal reserve. you would never have an a housing bubble without the excess money. [applause] government failed. wall street responded to the crazy "alice in wonderland" system congress created. if not so many people go there start w
i have a copy of how capitalism will save us by steve forbes. please put your hand up. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you my best book. [laughter] >> i have another book coming. >> you own a ought to? does that make you enable%? >> a person that other people would like to me. [laughter] as my father liked to say money does not buy happiness, but it helps. do you think getting rich is a noble pursuit? >> real...
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and later, aol co-founder steve case is among the panelists at a live discussion examining ways to spur economic growth and job creation. >> host: and welcome to las vegas. the consumer electronics show is held every year at the las vegas convention center. "the communicators" is on site here doing interviews, looking at the most recent technology and talking with policymakers. up next, we interviewed the chairman of the board of mercedes benz about some of the technology used in their cars. dieter zetsche is the chairman of daimler which is the parent company of mercedes benz, and he joins "the communicators" here at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. what's the technology that you're introducing? >> guest: well, the show here, the lawsuitest of connective -- the latest of connectivity of in the car. we have with on one hand the future direction we will take with so-called -- [inaudible] that show how you can interact with your car, all the different aspects of connectivity, the social network, navigation, all kinds in this regard. on the other hand, we have stuff which is ava
and later, aol co-founder steve case is among the panelists at a live discussion examining ways to spur economic growth and job creation. >> host: and welcome to las vegas. the consumer electronics show is held every year at the las vegas convention center. "the communicators" is on site here doing interviews, looking at the most recent technology and talking with policymakers. up next, we interviewed the chairman of the board of mercedes benz about some of the technology used...
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the one hand, apple is a completely california bred, creative 60's -- and in the book i point out the steve jobs used to going to interviews and asked job candidates if they have editors done lsd in the hopes of the answer would be yes. exxonmobil would say take this cup and provide us a sample. on the one hand they are very different hand they are both a closed system, they both have a command management and they both are driven by the desire to control their environment. job so desperately wanted to control every element of the customers experience, every element of the design and they both were not get partners. they didn't really believe in partnership. they believed in the advantages of total control. that makes them secretive because it's the secrecy that follows the desire for control, not secrecy is an end in itself. so it is fascinating. the other point about exxonmobil that i came to think about every time is, you know most big industrialized democracies because of the nature of art economy they'll have big oil companies. and yes, industrialized west most of the states have privat
the one hand, apple is a completely california bred, creative 60's -- and in the book i point out the steve jobs used to going to interviews and asked job candidates if they have editors done lsd in the hopes of the answer would be yes. exxonmobil would say take this cup and provide us a sample. on the one hand they are very different hand they are both a closed system, they both have a command management and they both are driven by the desire to control their environment. job so desperately...
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now falls to me to bring steve clemens up here. i generally feel silly introducing steve clemens because it always turns out everybody already knows him. steve is -- if you know him, man who believes deeply in servicing the next provocative idea, hearing from as many different points of view as possible, which makes him a perfect for "the atlantic." the editor in chief and the guy who brought us all together today. steve? >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, james. and thank you all of our underwriters. we're being covered today by cnbc, bloomberg, live all day on c-span and many blogs streaming live as well so we have big community outside this room. so those of you tweeting, if you like something, you can tweet it. if you hate something, you can tweet it. the notion -- we had a dinner last night preceding this, and one friend who was there, an msnbc commentator, and kind of a good progressive radical writer, and i'm sure david would like that depiction -- texted me after he heft the dinner and said, steve, fantastic cerebral in
now falls to me to bring steve clemens up here. i generally feel silly introducing steve clemens because it always turns out everybody already knows him. steve is -- if you know him, man who believes deeply in servicing the next provocative idea, hearing from as many different points of view as possible, which makes him a perfect for "the atlantic." the editor in chief and the guy who brought us all together today. steve? >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, james. and...
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steve jobs wanted to control every element of the customers' experience. every element of the design. they both were not good partners. they didn't believe in partner ship. they believed in the advantages of total control. that makes them secretive. because it's intuitive. secrecy is the control. it's fascinating. the other point about exxonmobil i came to think about over time, you know, most big strielized democracies because of the nature of the energy of the economy. they have big stake oil companies. bp, and question yes in the they're playing ball harder than others. they mid plied they have direct to dick china any and call on washington what it helps them. but one of the things they found interesting the talks in here about politicians getting it wrong. i put down the page number and it's even more apt today. here it is. the quote from tillerson, the theory it didn't matter where you get oil from. you put in the bathtub and you have more supply. in the negotiable market the -- energy made in america is not as important as energy simply made whoever
steve jobs wanted to control every element of the customers' experience. every element of the design. they both were not good partners. they didn't believe in partner ship. they believed in the advantages of total control. that makes them secretive. because it's intuitive. secrecy is the control. it's fascinating. the other point about exxonmobil i came to think about over time, you know, most big strielized democracies because of the nature of the energy of the economy. they have big stake oil...
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steve bauman ahead of microsoft likes to say that google is a one trick tony but in fact they have got four ponies that they are writing for searches one and by the way as smartphones grow so does search share because people are doing it on their mobile phone so that is and business he now. second, they have got the android operating system which is now the largest operating system. they will figure out a way to monetize that either by charging the phone companies for it or ads or something. location-based advertising, whatever. third day of cloud computing which is a very hot area. when you do it on your blackberry or or or iphone server that is a cloud. the information is stored in a cloud and bayard doing it in companies. obviously advertising. this is a huge area, and youtube. 40% of the videos downloaded are done on youtube and if you look at youtube that is relevant to what we are talking about content today. youtube is losing about a billion dollars a year a couple of years i generated content. what they discovered is advertisers would not want their friendly ads next to some do
steve bauman ahead of microsoft likes to say that google is a one trick tony but in fact they have got four ponies that they are writing for searches one and by the way as smartphones grow so does search share because people are doing it on their mobile phone so that is and business he now. second, they have got the android operating system which is now the largest operating system. they will figure out a way to monetize that either by charging the phone companies for it or ads or something....
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good morning, josh and steve, want to thank you for a tremendous program. one thing i've witnessed in the past 20 years as a entrepreneur is there's a tremendous amount of intellectual capital locked up within our corporate entities around this area. huge opportunity for innovation. used to transferring technology out, there's been some movement by some major companies, how do you think we can pull more of that out? those are market-driven opportunities that have much higher success rates, i think, than maybe pure start-ups that are sort of theoretically driven. >> who are you again? >> i'm mark bennett. >> thanks so much. >> i think there are a lot of great people and a lot of great, large organizations. a lot of people in government, nih, a lot of the focus on next generation health and those folks on the, folks on security. i think they're very, very talented people, but so far they've chosen to stay in sort of a what they perceive to be a safe world in terms of a company that's been around for a while and will be around for a while. certainly, when i wa
good morning, josh and steve, want to thank you for a tremendous program. one thing i've witnessed in the past 20 years as a entrepreneur is there's a tremendous amount of intellectual capital locked up within our corporate entities around this area. huge opportunity for innovation. used to transferring technology out, there's been some movement by some major companies, how do you think we can pull more of that out? those are market-driven opportunities that have much higher success rates, i...
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>> pulitzer prize-winning journalist steve coll's latest book is private enterprise, exxonmobil and american power. he recently sat down with booktv to talk about the oil companies political and economic power and how it became the most profitable corporation in the world. >> host: hi steve. of thank so much for joining us on after words and congratulations on your achievement. i first of all, starting off i really enjoy the book. it read as a novel. it really read like nonfiction and places which i am sure as a writer you encounter some of that feeling as well and i know is a reporter you dealt with exxonmobil a good chunk of her career, how difficult it probably was to probe this company. lets let's kind of start there. wide exxonmobil? how did you come to the subject? i know that previously in your career so why this company and how did it differ from some of their other subjects like that bin laden's? >> guest: it's an interesting, to me it was an interesting journey because as you point out i started out as a business reporter on wall street when i was very young and then i went abroad
>> pulitzer prize-winning journalist steve coll's latest book is private enterprise, exxonmobil and american power. he recently sat down with booktv to talk about the oil companies political and economic power and how it became the most profitable corporation in the world. >> host: hi steve. of thank so much for joining us on after words and congratulations on your achievement. i first of all, starting off i really enjoy the book. it read as a novel. it really read like nonfiction...
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, and then bob calling me and saying steve wants to talk to you about something. and that was, actually, the video ipod which when you think back, i remember the video ipod, but i'm so addicted to my iphone, and i've got everything there now that it just seems a very natural progression. so -- >> is that a good business for you? >> yes, it is a good business for us. because it connects us to our viewers in a way we never dreamed possible. >> you don't make the kind of profits there with your content that you would make on your cable channels. >> no. they're very different business models. one is 30 years old, and the other is a few years old. so i think they're apples and oranges. >> one thing that happens, once people start consuming video that they're pulling down digitally over the internet, then all of a sudden you go from a limited group of competitors to an unlimited group of competitors. you've got the jay-z channel, the deepak chopra channel, "the wall street journal" channel, there's infinite competition out there. doesn't that effect the value of what yo
, and then bob calling me and saying steve wants to talk to you about something. and that was, actually, the video ipod which when you think back, i remember the video ipod, but i'm so addicted to my iphone, and i've got everything there now that it just seems a very natural progression. so -- >> is that a good business for you? >> yes, it is a good business for us. because it connects us to our viewers in a way we never dreamed possible. >> you don't make the kind of profits...
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. >> steve crawford, washington institute of public policy. you emphasize that one size will fit all and you have to have individualized tutoring. yet most of the pregnant programs we are talking about in the interventions and lessons learned are for application within one school. i have not heard much about the variation among schools and allowing the way that richard suggested all together now is the foundation researcher public-school choice where ideally overtime one school would be maybe the old boys' school which is best for some kids or the school in the uniforms, the sort of mass and drama to have choice and they knew where they do this, they get 95% get the first school to get the panel's comments for public choice. you can attend any district so long as you can get transportation there and they decide to accept you. we have one of the best magnet school programs in the country. choice is huge in our school district. at the same time, what happens, one of the challenges that we have in the struggle is what happens to the schools that
. >> steve crawford, washington institute of public policy. you emphasize that one size will fit all and you have to have individualized tutoring. yet most of the pregnant programs we are talking about in the interventions and lessons learned are for application within one school. i have not heard much about the variation among schools and allowing the way that richard suggested all together now is the foundation researcher public-school choice where ideally overtime one school would be...
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begin with steve in new york. you are on the air. good evening. >> caller: yes - level of the government is to protect basic rights and there is nothing more basic than clean air and water and this is what has totally been forgotten in the last year and a half, two years of the debate. the ecology is not even mentioned in this basically a simplifies modern man's complete this association and disconnection from the natural world to the point of nature distain. that is the basic difficulty. in fact, the attachment is so great that it's even skewed the perception of the reality. you are constantly hearing the word growth and overlooking one simple fact. you cannot grow indefinitely on a finite planet of the finite natural resources especially water. so, all of these candidates are neglecting this. and this is life itself and it has nothing to do with americans in the survival and i would like these candidates to address. when you consider energy more important than water. >> host: thanks from buffalo new york. what should the government
begin with steve in new york. you are on the air. good evening. >> caller: yes - level of the government is to protect basic rights and there is nothing more basic than clean air and water and this is what has totally been forgotten in the last year and a half, two years of the debate. the ecology is not even mentioned in this basically a simplifies modern man's complete this association and disconnection from the natural world to the point of nature distain. that is the basic difficulty....
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in the steve jobs biorhythm but how he was able to push up board members that he had liked and put in people, some of the ceos of other companies on to the board that he felt would be more favorable toward him. >> if elected how laws are written is a it's a democracy. the nominating -- the number a committee has to be independent. the ceo can't control the. they are elected by shareholders and so on. but it is sort of a democracy the with the former soviet union was a democracy. ceos control enough votes to get what they what. shareholders, particularly institutional shareholders are guilty because they just cross of a proxy which way minister wants to go without thinking about it. shareholders really should look in the mirror because they're not responsible voters are electress. the apollo. they don't hang around long enough to vote for changes, so it is a democracy, but it does not function as a democracy. the solution, we hinted that the solution after the reasons bud is a crisis where we passalong the said that shareholders sell in a non-binding vote on ceo compensation, call say
in the steve jobs biorhythm but how he was able to push up board members that he had liked and put in people, some of the ceos of other companies on to the board that he felt would be more favorable toward him. >> if elected how laws are written is a it's a democracy. the nominating -- the number a committee has to be independent. the ceo can't control the. they are elected by shareholders and so on. but it is sort of a democracy the with the former soviet union was a democracy. ceos...
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. >> steve jobs biography is number one on "the new york times" bestsellers list. author walter isaacson on business advice, the apple co-founder got early in his career. >> one is to focus, really keep your focus. the other is empathy, not the perfect word for it but it's basically make it an emotional connection for the people are going to buy your product and then the third is also not a great word, the word imputed by the means cast an aura around whatever you do so that the minute you, you know, steve even throughout his career had his own personal name on the patents for the boxes, the packaging, the apple product so when you open it up and there was the ipod cradled, it imputed that it was something really cool, just the way it was and that is what the apple ii does, it impedes that it's a really cool machine. >> , today's white house briefing with press secretary jay carney. he addresses reporters questions concerning the iranian conviction of a former u.s. marine. the 2012 presidential election and the publication of a new book on president obama and first
. >> steve jobs biography is number one on "the new york times" bestsellers list. author walter isaacson on business advice, the apple co-founder got early in his career. >> one is to focus, really keep your focus. the other is empathy, not the perfect word for it but it's basically make it an emotional connection for the people are going to buy your product and then the third is also not a great word, the word imputed by the means cast an aura around whatever you do so...